See the above picture? Grapefruit are rare here, and I have a grapefruit tree sheltering the picture window in my bedroom. I never know each year if there will be fruit. I took that photo almost exactly a year ago. Today there’s zero fruit on the tree. We had a longer very intense rainy season…
Originally published on September 14, 2018 at No Longer Quivering Patheos. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer So that might be an exaggeration, but not by much. Women in Quiverfull are taught and practice that going to the doctor or hospital is evil idolatry. If you are sick just throw some Black Salve on it, pray harder,…
I haven’t been around since I set up the site. First I had to make an emergency trip to my family of origin followed by health issues. So busy. My apologies. One of the Christian songs that has meant the most to me over the past few years is one by For King & Country…
Originally published on January 25, 2018 at No Longer Quivering. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer Right now the news media is focused on the family of David and Louise Turpin of Perris, California, focusing a bright light on the dangers of hiding abuse by homeschooling. But we know that soon enough another scandal will come along…
Originally published November 15, 2018 at No Longer Quivering. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer. This is one of the more toxic lies in Quiverfull, that your feelings are a lie. But it is one that the female cultural enforcers like Nancy Campbell of Above Rubies push the hardest. Why? Because if you can disassociate enough to…
Originally published November 18, 2018 at No Longer Quivering. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer Back last year (2017) Nicole Naugler contacted NLQ on Facebook challenging us to really investigate and write a ‘true’ story about their family. You remember the Nauglers? They were in the national media for losing custody of their ten children in Kentucky…
Originally published January 18, 2018 on No Longer Quivering. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer Today has been another day of more reveals in the story of the Turpin family. Louise Turpin’s sister has come forward to make allegations that when she lived with Louise and David Turpin that David would attempt to watch her shower. That…
Originally published January 16, 2018 at No Longer Quivering. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer On Monday morning we all woke up to a story in the news of a California family that had been abusing their children. Sunday night one of the Turpin children managed to get away and called local law enforcement. When the police…
Recently I had to return to the land of my birth, Louisiana, and deal with a family crisis. I quickly figured out that the situation had little to do with me personally, it was more to do with two powerful matriarchs in the family and how they related to one another. Neither were completely wrong…
Published June 28, 2017 at No Longer Quivering. Written by Suzanne Titkemeyer. I’ve had a hard time keeping my mouth shut lately in regards to the total and complete hypocrisy of one of the wealthier Quiverful/Evangelical female cultural enforcers. She has recently been martyrbating over the fact that many of us resist her theology, mistakenly…